1287275 - about:accounts?action=signup hangs in nightly for android, still needs webchannel.allowObject.urlWhitelist

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1287884

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Firefox Accounts, defect)

Description

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
Build ID: 20160715063552

Steps to reproduce:

setup sync with existing account in nightly firefox 50.0a1 (2016-07-15) of android 6.0.1

(This is actually a honor 5x device running EMUI 4.0, which is based on Android 6.0.1)


Actual results:

while sync setup works in firefox beta 48.0b6 on same device it hangs in nightly.
console log acquired via webide

NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED: Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getCharPref]browser-content.js:835

suggests this to be the culprit:

    let whitelist = Services.prefs.getCharPref(this.URL_WHITELIST_PREF);

Taking the pref setup from nightly firefox on linux, where it is still present, makes signup work in nightly firefox on android as well.

webchannel.allowObject.urlWhitelist;https://accounts.firefox.com https://content.cdn.mozilla.net https://hello.firefox.com https://input.mozilla.org https://support.mozilla.org https://install.mozilla.org


Expected results:

I would expect fxaccounts signup to work in nightly for android as well as in beta.

Comment 1

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

Even with the workaround of setting
webchannel.allowObject.urlWhitelist;https://accounts.firefox.com https://content.cdn.mozilla.net https://hello.firefox.com https://input.mozilla.org https://support.mozilla.org https://install.mozilla.org

I only get the login for accounts.firefox.com synced.

No other accounts I previously remembered from desktop firefox show up in nightly android after a full sync. Tested today in fennec 50.0a1 (2016-07-23)

All accounts do show up in firefox beta for android though.